This Saturday, May 5, Right Brain Performancelab will be appearing at the New Village School Annual Art Salon with a completely new piece that has nothing to do with gravity and everything to do with nature and how human beings inhabit it.

What’s impressive about this school is that many of the parents are working artists and are donating their work to the Salon, which will raise money to benefit the school. Our daughter goes there and we are completely impressed.

Four RBP performers will be performing, John, Laura, I and our newest collaborator, Athena Radomski. Here is the flyer…

Buy your tickets here:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/241267

Please join us for this odd and wild ride…

…A love letter to the force that grounds people and all the other beings and objects that share the world. Gravity brings rain to the earth. It’s the force with which we negotiate in order to stand on two legs and is the ultimate metaphor for the slow descent to the earth at the end of life. It is both unseen and unavoidable, the invisible, imminent element that is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. It infuses every experience and is, in the most literal sense, the ultimate leveler, setting people of all ranks firmly and equally on the earth. In a larger sense, gravity holds the universe together. From earthquakes to planetary pulls and black holes, its effects are so vast that it is a force that requires equations or metaphors in order for human beings to grasp them. The evening will be made up of intertwined, nonlinear scenes that move from microcosm to macrocosm in which we look at the essence of weight and the need to fall, what it feels like for things to drop from above and the possible outcomes of the descent. Right Brain Performancelab explores different reasons for falling as well as the impulses involved, human responses to the elements, the state of mind that goes with being earthbound, as well as the slow undulations of the earth beneath our feet.

Here they are. All images are by the inimitable Steve Gelberg:

Laura, Lisa and Jen

Everyone…we managed to get John for this one!

Everyone again!

Yes, if you were wondering…this show features six performers and 38 ping pong balls.

If your curiosity is piqued, tickets can now be purchased on Brownpapertickets.com:

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/241267

One down side to holding performances in your home is that if your child gets the chicken pox, then your theater goes into quarantine for 10 days. We do plan on having this show when our chicken pox time is over, though, so please stay tuned.

If you’ve ever wondered just what the heck goes on in our rehearsals, then your questions are about to be answered! On 4/21 from 3-4 we will hold a free open rehearsal for National Dance Week at DanceGround Keriac on 1805 Divisadero at Bush in San Francisco.

Here is the listing, which has a sign-up form:
http://www.bayareandw.org/free_events_details.php?e_id=235

Or you can e-mail us at info at performancelab dot org!

Hurry! Seating is extremely limited!

http://duewestsalon.eventbrite.com/

I just discovered this from way back in 2001 when I had a solo piece at The Physics Room Trust in Christchurch as part of the cool and very brainy (sorry for yet another pun) “Neural Notations” group show. Then it lead me here…to The Physics Room Trust site, which I’d tried to find after the earthquake and for some reason couldn’t. Perhaps it was down for a while. I’m glad to see that they are up and doing stuff, even though their Tuam Street building is still inaccessible.